《haunted house》 bus In the ...... thick fog, a dilapidated bus is slowly driving along the endless highway. There were seven people in the bus, three women and four men. They were sitting in the bus, looking out the window at the thick fog, with different expressions. Doubt, confusion, fear ...... But other than that, their faces were all equally pale. It was as if on the way, they had experienced something terrible. This bus traveled all the way until it finally came to a certain old and outdated villa outside before it finally stopped. The villa was wrapped in thick fog around it, pitch black, mysterious and eerie. The door of the car opened, seems to tell the passengers inside ...... that it is time to get off. The seven people on the bus slowly got off the bus, and they looked back, with a touch of indescribable fear in their eyes. Because, in the driver s seat of this bus, the position ...... where a driver should originally exist was empty. Yes, this bus ...... did not have a driver. As the last passenger got off the bus, the bus door automatically closed, and then drove up again until it disappeared into the depths of the mist ...... The seven people standing outside the black villa looked at each other and saw the unsightly to the extreme looks on each other''s faces. "Let''s go ......" "I think we have no other choice." At the critical time, a thin man in the crowd opened his mouth, wearing a dark brown square-framed wooden glasses, his clear face highlighting a calmness different from others. "Really ...... really want to go in?" The voice of the pretty woman with the studded gold earrings trembled. She was wearing burns, so she was very cold. Hands covered her arms, rubbing them constantly. "What if it''s ...... not safe inside?" The others were silent. Originally, they thought that this was some kind of prank, or that some people had invited them specifically to do a show ...... However, when they realized that there was no driver on the bus at all, they all fell into a deep fear! The crowd had all been staunch materialists at one time, yet something ...... that had happened earlier was just too unbelievable! "So, are you going to walk into the mist?" Ning Qiushui took a deep breath and tried to act calm. In fact, his heart was beating fast. From the time he received that mysterious letter to the time he came to this place, it was a total of less than a bell. But this one bell was just too much of a shock to his worldview! "Have you forgotten, that fat man who was at the intersection earlier and jumped out of the car by himself?" Mentioning that fat man, the woman''s beautiful eyes immediately filled with great fear! Her legs softened and she almost didn''t stand still! Earlier, there were a total of 8 people on the bus. All of them had suddenly appeared on this bus after falling asleep. One of them was a fat man who had been cursing and swearing on the way, saying that it must be some unscrupulous programmer who wanted to hire them for a reality show. The fat man was impatient and said that their cell phones must have been replaced, that the driver of the car was actually driving the bus underneath them, that the fog scene was specially created dry ice, etc. ...... Finally, as the bus pauses at some intersection, the fat man simply opens the window, jumps out of the bus, and walks off into the fog alone ...... Things had developed to this point, and it was all fairly normal. However, when the crowd came to the next intersection, they actually discovered what was floating on the mist shrouded traffic lights ...... As the bus slowly approached, they only saw clearly that what had been floating on the traffic light ...... was clearly the bloody human skin of the fat man who had left earlier! That skin was stripped intact, and the crowd could even see the fat man s expression was extremely horrified and twisted, like he had seen something particularly horrible before he died! And on the pole of the traffic light, large swathes of scarlet blood kept dripping down! This scene directly scared the crowd in the car silly! Some people do not believe in evil, pull open the window, so that the smell of blood that makes people want to vomit, so floating a car ...... ... The mention of the fat man, the crowd''s face is very ugly, some people even began to dry-heave. "...... Since no one dares to approach that mist, we can only enter this black villa ......" Ning Qiushui took a deep breath. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. He was equally scared. But for some reason, whether it was seeing that bloody human skin floating on the traffic light or smelling that bloody odor, his reaction was far less than the crowd''s. Moreover, he was interested in the mysterious letter from earlier. What exactly did the owner of the letter ...... want to tell himself? With Ning Qiushui taking the lead, the crowd followed his lead, pushing open the iron gate of the black villa and entering the garden outside the villa. The surroundings were silent. The silence was terrifying. The crowd had to lean closely together, and the pretty woman in the center with the gold earring felt that someone was mooching off of her, but she just frowned and didn''t say anything more. Mooching is mooching it ...... is better than somehow being skinned! Just like that, the crowd arrived outside the door of the black villa, and Ning Qiushui knocked on the door. Knock knock-- As he knocked on the door, the sound of footsteps soon came from the inner door, and the people behind him couldn''t help but take a few steps back, eyeing the door intently, seemingly very nervous! Creak- The door was opened. But the horrifying scene that the crowd expected did not appear. The one who opened the door was a very delicate and beautiful young girl. She seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. "Arrived?" "Come in." The young girl opened her mouth, and the crowd realized that he was actually ...... a boy. A very beautiful boy. But the boy''s voice was very cold. There wasn''t much emotion. The crowd watched as Ning Qiushui followed the boy in, and for a moment, they looked at each other, not knowing whether they should follow or not. "You guys better hurry up and come in ......." Just as the crowd hesitated, the boy''s voice came from inside the room again. "That mist ...... is very unsafe." At the mention of the mists, the crowd remembered the fat man who had died tragically earlier, and they shivered in fear, scrambling to enter the room. The villa''s hall was wide and very classically decorated, with neatly arranged bookshelves on the left, wooden stairs going up on the right, and three large sofas in the center resting place. In the center of the sofas was a burning fire pit. Inside the room, four people were gathered around the center of the fire pot. They were staring at the flames in the fire pit, staring blankly and not speaking. The atmosphere, in such silence ...... grew colder and colder. "May I ask ...... where is this place?" "Why did we come here?" "What''s the situation with the mists and the bus outside?" "......" Finally, Ning Qiushui asked these three questions after pondering for a moment. However, there was still no one to answer him. Even the four people roasting the fire didn''t even press a single glance at him. At this moment, Liu Chengfeng, the bearded man behind Ning Qiushui, couldn''t help himself: "Asking you guys!" "All mute?" His voice was extremely loud, booming in the room and causing people''s eardrums to ache. Finally, the man in the suit who was sitting on the sofa directly opposite Ning Qiushui, roasting on the fire, spoke up: "I know you guys have a lot of questions ......" "If you guys can come back alive from the first blood gate, I will inform you of the answers to these questions with you." When the crowd heard this, a sense of foreboding filled their hearts. "Blood Gate? What is that?" Ning Qiushui''s heart fluttered as she remembered the phone call that mysterious woman had made earlier and opened her mouth to ask. The man in the suit didn''t even lift his head, pointing a finger at the third floor of the villa. "You guys don''t have much time left, there''s less than 5 minutes before the Blood Gate opens, and at that time, you''ll enter the horrifying world in the Blood Gate to complete the mission on the Blood Gate." "After completing the mission, the bus will come to pick you up." After he finished speaking, a short and skinny double ponytail woman Yan Youping in the crowd weakly asked: "What will happen if ...... we don''t complete the mission?" The man in the suit sniffed and slowly raised his head, locking eyes with Yan Youping. Those calm and indifferent eyes made Yan Youping''s heart tremble. "Will die." "And it is ...... very miserable to die." When the crowd heard this, their bodies softened. They were tempted to think it was just a joke. However ...... the serious expression of the man in the suit dispelled the last trace of fluke within them. "Can ...... we not, not go?" Another young man who had dyed his hair blonde swallowed and asked as such. The man in the suit glanced at him. "Can." "But ...... you''d all better stay awake from now on." The blond man froze: "For, why?" The man in the suit smiled leathery: "Because, if you don''t go inside the Blood Gate to complete your mission, then ...... something'' will come out after the Blood Gate to find you." "No matter where you escape to, they will find you." "And then ......" The man in the suit didn''t continue, but the crowd already knew the ending. Ning Qiushui glanced at the third floor and finally asked the man in the suit: "Before we go in, do you guys have any more instructions?" The man in the suit was slightly stunned, then shifted his gaze to Ning Qiushui, and after seeing Ning Qiushui''s calmness that was different from the crowd''s, a trace of undetectable admiration flashed under his eyes. "Tinker?...... There is." "The stories behind the Blood Sect, although incomparably treacherous, all have more than one path to life, as long as you guys find the path to life, it''s not hard to complete the mission and survive ......." Ning Qiushui nodded. "Many thanks." After he finished speaking, he actually took the lead and was the first to take a step towards the upper floors. Liu Chengfeng, the bearded man, saw Ning Qiushui being so decisive, and after a fierce struggle in his eyes, he also gritted his teeth and followed him up. "Shit, little brother ...... you are really bold!" Coming behind Ning Qiushui, Liu Chengfeng whispered. On the road, he had actually noticed Ning Qiushui. It was hard not to pay attention. Whether it was in discovering the fat man''s human skin or smelling that strong smell of blood, Ning Qiushui didn''t have much of a reaction. "Gutsy?" Ning Qiushui let out a self-deprecating laugh. "Do you think that we have a choice?" Liu Chengfeng was very tall, so even though he was a step below Ning Qiushui, his height was only a little bit lower than him. "Seeing the fat man s human skin earlier, little brother you are not blinking, was ...... doing that before?" "Which one?" "Killer." "You novel read too much, where in reality so many killers?" "Uh ...... that ......" "I''m a doctor." "Oh~ no wonder, forensic scientist?" "Pretty much, veterinarian." Liu Chengfeng: "......" The two chatted and came to the third floor of the villa. As soon as they came up, the duo stopped talking. A strong smell of blood accompanied by a strong odor of rotting wood filled the air. On the third floor of the villa, there is nothing but a ...... wooden door that is drenched red with blood. The scarlet blood on the wooden door was written in a line: [Take care of the paralyzed old man on the bed for five days]. "Taking care of the old man ...... This is our mission this time." Ning Qiushui''s gaze flickered. The others also came up one after another, and when they saw the words in blood on the wooden door, they were all stunned. "It''s just ...... that simple?" The golden earring woman, Wang Yu Ning, was somewhat incredulous. The crowd whispered, and suddenly, they all stopped, seeming to have the same sense, and looked at the wooden door in unison. LOL- Inside the wooden door, it looked like something was pushing the door. Soon, the wooden door was pushed open by a pair of pale hands! As the blood-stained wooden door slowly opened, the crowd suddenly went black and lost consciousness ...... *** Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) *** uninhabited region By the time they regained consciousness, they had all arrived behind the bloody wooden door. The crowd was separated in a cluster of magnificent villas in a suburban area. It was just strange that this place appeared to be dead even though it was extremely exquisitely constructed. After Ning Qiushui passed through several villas, she confirmed that there was no one within the villa complex here. It was eerily quiet. "Is no one living here, or have they all gone out to work?" Ning Qiushui carefully observed the villa cluster here and seemed to have discovered something. "It''s not right ......" "The gardens have traces of recent pruning, there are goldfish in the pond, and there are some commonly used tools in the yard ...... There should be people living here." "But ...... where have all these people gone?" A trace of doubt flashed through Ning Qiushui''s mind as he continued to walk forward. Soon, he saw the villa that the mission had asked to enter. It wasn''t difficult to recognize. It was because in the entire cluster of villas, there was only this one villa with someone standing outside. It was a woman who was beautifully dressed, wearing a flashy outfit and carrying a suitcase. She was wearing a sun hat, pinning a small red flower, holding a tender little girl, about eight or nine years old, and standing like this under the not-so-hot sunlight in the courtyard, looking at the people who came here with a smile on her face. The woman smiled beautifully, the kind of human wife that gets more beautiful the more you look at it, but for some reason, Ning Qiushui looked at the woman s smile, and there was always a ...... feeling of coldness in his back. That kind of smile, it didn''t seem to be like greeting a guest, it was more like ...... Just as Ning Qiushui was lost in thought, a large hand slapped on Ning Qiushui''s shoulder. Ning Qiushui was startled and turned around to see that it was the bearded Liu Chengfeng. "Little brother, you''ve arrived as well?" Ning Qiushui nodded. "Well, by the looks of it, that villa is where we''re going." Liu Chengfeng glanced at the villa from afar, his expression became quite heavy, and then he counted with his fingers and muttered: "Bad ......" Ning Qiushui''s eyes lit up when she saw his appearance: "You can tell fortunes?" Liu Chengfeng shook his head. "Outside, I do help people tell fortunes ...... but I just remembered that I don''t actually know how to tell fortunes, I''m just a magician." Ning Qiushui''s breath stuttered. Numb. This guy was really ...... a canon within a canon. Lies say more than they believe is it? And ...... Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. This kind of thing why can you say it with such a straight face? "Forget it ......" Ning Qiushui shook her head helplessly and directly took a step, walking towards the villa where the young woman was in the distance. Someone had already arrived here first. The villa''s mistress didn''t speak to them, and only gave them an official smile. This smile was neither cold nor warm, and when they spoke to the hostess, she would only reply with one sentence: "Please wait, there are still a few escorts who have not yet arrived." After about ten minutes, the seven people finally arrived. At this time, as if some kind of condition had been triggered, the Mistress, who had always only smiled, suddenly opened her mouth and said to the several people: "All here, right?" "I''m really sorry to ask all of you to come together to take care of my mother, it''s just that my husband is out of work, and I''m taking my daughter to the beach for her birthday, so there''s really no one ...... at home." "And since my mother is old, not only is she paralyzed in bed, but her intelligence has deteriorated severely, I was worried that two or three caregivers might not be able to take care of her well, so I simply hired all of you from the company ......" "Money wise, you guys don''t need to worry, I don''t lack money." "When I come back ...... if my mother is properly taken care of, I will pay all of you individually." She said, leading the crowd to approach the villa, entering the 2nd floor of the villa, and coming into the wide room. The room was not well lit. Inside ...... there was also a not so good smell. And on the room''s large bed by the window, there was an old man with a kind face lying on the bed, looking peacefully at Ning Qiushui and the others. On her face, there was an imperceptible and eerie smile, giving the crowd a feeling of ...... sweating. "This is my mother ......." After the woman introduced herself to the crowd, she came back to the old woman''s side and squatted down, saying with deep emotion: "Mom, I''m going to take Tuan Tuan to the beach er birthday, specially for you to find seven caregivers, these five days by them to take care of you ......" After she finished speaking, she came closer to the old man''s ear and whispered something. Then the woman got up, looked at the crowd, and smiled: "Although my mother is paralyzed and has a bit of Alzheimer''s, she can understand some simple words, and her body is generally quite good, with no other illnesses and a good appetite ...... Oh yes, I haven''t taken all of you to the kitchen yet." She said, and brought the crowd downstairs again, to the villa''s kitchen. The kitchen was equally large, with all the kitchenware on the table, all cleaned very well. To the left of the kitchen entrance, there were two huge refrigerators. "It''s already summer here, and the rainy season is coming, the rainstorms over here are horrible, and there may be heavy winds and rain in the next three to five days, so it will be very inconvenient to buy food and meat at that time ......" The woman said, smiling at the crowd as she pulled open one of the large refrigerators, revealing the meat and vegetables stuffed to the brim inside: "But you all don''t have to worry." "I''ve prepared plenty of food and water for you all ......" "Also ...... my mother doesn''t like eating vegetables, when you guys usually cook for her, just cook more meat." After the woman finished speaking, she didn''t immediately leave with her own daughter, but asked the crowd: "Do you all have any more questions?" Ning Qiushui was the first to speak: "May I ask, does no one else live in this villa area?" The woman was stunned for a moment, then smiled very calmly: "Yes, in fact, this villa area has been constructed for some time now, but because it''s too remote, there''s no one else living in this place other than us, in fact, if it wasn''t for our mother''s original reason, we wouldn''t be living here either ......" After a pause, she added: "In these five days, you just treat yourselves as if you are the owner of the villa, I have already made all the accommodation on the second floor for all of you, so when the time comes, you can just pick the room of your choice by yourselves." "But pay attention to all of you ...... you absolutely, absolutely cannot enter the third floor of the villa, understand?" When she said this, the woman''s expression suddenly became extremely serious. The crowd promised. When the hostess saw that the crowd had agreed, she spread her face and smiled again. "Since all of you already understand, then ...... my mother is in your hands!" "Ya, the car is about to leave, I have to go with my daughter first, otherwise I will miss the high speed train ......" She said, and in a hurry, she stepped on her high heels and came to the door, holding her own daughter and suitcase towards the outside. Ning Qiushui vaguely felt that something wasn''t quite right, so she came to the window and watched the direction the woman left. Just as they were getting into the car, the little girl being held by the woman turned her head back and locked eyes with Ning Qiushui at the window. This glance directly caused Ning Qiushui to freeze in place. His eyesight was excellent. Therefore, Ning Qiushui clearly saw a flash of ...... fear in the little girl s eyes! She was afraid. Scared of what? Afraid of going to the beach? Afraid of her own mother? Or ...... afraid of this villa they were in? Just as Ning Qiushui was thinking, Liu Chengfeng, a burly man with a beard, came up again and tsked: "Look ha? People have gone far away all ......" "Little brother, I didn''t expect you to be young, but actually good at this mouthful of human wives ...... Good, good, the future is promising!" Scream After the villa''s hostess left, the crowd returned to the hall, and after briefly introducing themselves, they began discussing about taking care of the old man. Among them, that short and skinny girl Yan Youping, who was tied in a double ponytail, weakly raised her small hand. "That ...... word, how did you all enter the bus?" "I, I was originally on the high speed train, played with my cell phone and got sleepy, so I ...... slept for a while, and when I woke up I was on the bus." "I am also, originally in the company overtime, the result suddenly feel very sleepy ......" The crowd opened their mouths, a pair, and actually realized that everyone came to the bus in exactly the same way. This kind of weirdness, so that their hearts, which were already terrified, became even more terrified! "Damn ...... really hit the evil ......" The bearded Liu Chengfeng cursed. Yan Youping was silent for a while and then weakly said: "You guys say, could ...... this be some program group coming to invite us to a reality show through such a way?" "After all, I used to watch it on TV ......" Before she could finish her sentence, Liu Chengfeng interrupted her with a sneer: "Forgot about that fat guy so quickly?" "TV does programs that kill and skin people?" Yan Youping''s heart pounded, but she glared: "What if ...... what if that''s just a prop?" "Blood is also a prop?" "Who knows, what if it''s chicken blood and dog blood ......" Yan Youping still wanted to deceive herself and others, but the sudden words of Ning Qiushui next to her shattered the last line of defense within her: "It''s not beast blood." The crowd looked at Ning Qiushui. He seemed to have accepted it all and appeared extraordinarily calm. "I used to be a veterinarian, and I''m also especially sensitive to smells, there is a clear difference between the smell of blood from cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, chickens, ducks, fish, geese, and pigeons and the smell of human blood." "For example, sheep''s blood is very stinky, while human blood is a distinct smell of rust ......" "I can tell you very clearly that the blood on that stoplight at that time was 100% human blood." "And it was ...... the freshest human blood!" After Ning Qiushui finished speaking, Yan Youping shivered in fear and hugged his knees as he sobbed softly: "Don''t say ...... anything." "Please ...... don''t say it ......" Seeing her in this state, Ning Qiushui''s tone eased slightly. It was no wonder that the girl was stunned. Normal people in real life, if they saw that scene from before, I''m afraid it would all become a lingering psychological shadow for a very long time. Only people who often dealt with corpses could be relatively better off. After all, ...... that scene is really too bloody! "It''s better to think about how to get through these 5 days first ......" An ordinary looking man with a height of around 170 and shadowy eyes said. His name was Xue Gouze. "There are a total of 7 of us, and our mission this time is to take care of the old man in the bed for 5 days, how are you all going to divide it up?" The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, Ning Qiushui saw that no one had spoken, so she said: "Let''s put it this way, the three girls are responsible for cooking and washing clothes, and the four of us men are responsible for taking care of that old man ......" As soon as his words fell, the pretty queen with gold earrings, Yu Ning, said in a conspiratorial manner: "Yo, women are supposed to do the laundry and cooking for you smelly men?" "You guys are good at being lazy, hearing the mistress say that that old thing is lying on the bed and can''t even move, you volunteered to take care of her ...... Do you take us for fools or what?" "Saying that it''s to take care of that old thing, I''m afraid that you don''t have to do anything, you''re just being lazy there, right?" As soon as Liu Chengfeng heard this from Wang Yuning, he couldn''t help it at that time and raised his chin and said leisurely: "So stinky ah ...... how good a girl, how is her mouth full of fecal odor?" Wang Yu Ning''s face was also gloomy: "Who the hell are you cursing?" Liu Chengfeng wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Ning Qiushui. "You don''t want to wash clothes and cook, I can switch with you, you go take care of the old man, let''s just go from 9am to 10pm, after 10pm I guess it''s dark, so we''ll wash and rest." Wang Yu Ning glanced at Ning Qiushui and snorted coldly. If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. "Then ...... thanks." Although she said this, her tone was all but thankless. There was only full of mockery. "Right ...... it''s also past five now, I''m hungry, aren''t you going to cook? Go ah." Ning Qiushui looked deeply at Wang Yuning, didn''t say anything more, and turned to the two girls: "Do you guys want to change?" The girl who hadn''t said anything, Ya Mu, raised her hand. "I ......" "Sorry, I really don''t know how to cook." Compared to Wang Yu Ning''s obnoxious appearance, Ya Mu was much more sincere. In this society, there were too many pampered children, and it wasn''t surprising that there were plenty of men and women who didn''t know how to cook. "Are there any men and women who can cook?" The remaining three men were silent for a little while, and Liu Chengfeng said impatiently: "Hey, forget it, I''ll go with you to cook and wash clothes!" "What a bunch of losers, they don''t even know how to cook and wash clothes!" Wang Yu Ning coldly said: "Brown people, keep your mouths clean!" Liu Chengfeng glared and pointed at Wang Yuning: "If it wasn''t for the fact that Lao Zi doesn''t hit women, see if you die today!" Wang Yu Ning sneered and stepped on her own high heels to go upstairs with a thud. The kitchen was on the first floor, the old man was on the second floor, the villa was huge, the people were busy with their own business, so they separated. Liu Chengfeng cursed and followed Ning Qiushui to the kitchen. Accompanying him, there was also that little girl Yan Youping who kept sobbing. "Alright, less cursing." Entering the kitchen, Ning Qiushui was really annoyed by his noise, so she interrupted Liu Chengfeng. "Not ...... this gas you can stand?" Liu Chengfeng glared. Ning Qiushui opened the refrigerator and started taking ingredients out. "Do you really think going to take care of that old man ...... is a good job?" Hearing this, Liu Chengfeng''s breath suddenly lurched. "Little brother, what do you mean by this?" Ning Qiushui slowly turned his head and looked at Liu Chengfeng and Yan Youping next to him. "Do you remember what the man in the suit in the black villa told us?" "They will only answer our doubts after we return from the Blood Gate alive." "This means that the world behind the Blood Gate ...... has unimaginable dangers!" After he finished speaking, Yan Youping''s thin body shivered again! She said in a trembling voice: "What ...... danger?" Ning Qiushui shook his head. "It''s not clear ...... yet, but since the mission on the Blood Gate is to take care of the old man, it''s more than likely that the danger has something to do with that old man." "Anyway ...... be more careful." Hearing Ning Qiushui''s instructions, Liu Chengfeng''s eyes turned and secretly pinched his fingers, the previous shadowy look on his face swept away, hehehe laughed: "Little brother, I think what you said makes sense, I''ll hang out with you." Ning Qiushui looked at Liu Chengfeng with some surprise and shook his head, but did not say anything more. He first took out the vegetables from the refrigerator and looked at the emergency freezer. There was indeed a lot of meat there as the villa''s hostess had said. It was cut into separate pieces by the hostess and filled into different bags. Ning Qiushui took out a bag labeled [Beef Tenderloin], threw it into the pot, and defrosted it over low heat. When he closed the refrigerator, Ning Qiushui''s afterglow suddenly noticed something, and he took a piece of frozen hard meat out from the depths of the refrigerator. In the bag containing the meat, there were many black unknown substances. It was just that the broken ice covered too much, and the bag containing the meat was all vacuum-packed, so it wasn''t clear what those black substances were. The bag was not labeled with a meat label, so it was thought that the hostess had forgotten about it. Ning Qiushui stared at the meat for a while, who knew that Liu Chengfeng, the bearded brown man, came up again. "Why is this meat black?" He said curiously. Ning Qiushui shook her head and stuffed the meat back into the refrigerator. "I don''t know, maybe it was frozen for too long and went bad." The three of them were busy in the kitchen, and to Ning Qiushui''s surprise, Liu Chengfeng, a brown man who looked like an old punk, actually cooked a good handful of food! The way he washed, cut, and fried the vegetables looked like a veteran. "Let''s eat!" Liu Chengfeng brought the fried meat and vegetables to the table and yelled upstairs. Then he didn''t care if the people upstairs came or not, he directly picked up the steaming rice and ate it with a big mouthful. Yan Youping looked at Liu Chengfeng''s appearance of a hungry ghost and couldn''t help but ask: "Not waiting for them?" Liu Chengfeng didn''t have the good sense to say: "Wait for what?" "Eat!" After saying that, he wolfed it down again. Da da da- Four footsteps came from upstairs, Wang Yu Ning was still on the stairs when she saw Liu Chengfeng who buried his head and ate furiously, she couldn''t help but taunt: "Look at you eating like a starving ghost ......" If it was before, Liu Chengfeng would definitely hit back hard. However, he seemed to be extraordinarily focused when he was eating, and simply took Wang Yu Ning''s taunts as a whisper. Wang Yu Ning just took it as him admitting his weakness, and also ate her meal on her own. During the meal, everyone was silent. Not knowing what to say. It was just that they felt that it was getting darker and darker in front of them, and at the back, they couldn''t even see the beef in the bowl very well. It wasn''t until Ning Qiushui stood up and turned on the lights that they finally realized ...... that it was dark. "Shit!" "How did the sky get dark so fast?" "It''s only less than seven o''clock!" The man called Kitajima gave a strange cry, and that startled look made the crowd feel not very comfortable. "What are you calling for?" Xue Guize, whose face was already not looking good, frowned. "Didn''t you hear the owner of the villa say before he left that the rainy season is coming soon?" "How normal it is for the sky to be dark ...... to make a fuss." He chided Bei Dao, his tone a little too excited, but everyone knew why this was, and unspokenly did not open their mouths. The atmosphere in the villa ...... was just too depressing. "Hey hey hey, is this how you guys take care of the elderly?" "Eat your own food, put people a paralyzed old man upstairs to starve, is this appropriate?" "There can''t be people who really think that taking care of the elderly means doing nothing, right?" The well-fed Liu Chengfeng put down his chopsticks and flossed his teeth while speaking conspiratorially to Wang Yuning, who was sitting on the opposite side of the table. The latter clenched her fists, and her gaze became quite grim again. "Hmph, you think everyone is a brown rice bucket like you?" "What a disgusting maggot-like man." She kicked her high heels in disgust, went to fetch a bowl of rice, haphazardly chucked in some of the leftovers from the crowd, and thumped her way up the stairs. The crowd watched her figure disappear at the darkened hallway, and for some reason, their hearts all inexplicably jumped faster ...... "Were you all on the second floor just now?" Ning Qiushui also put down her own chopsticks at this time, and asked the three people who were responsible for taking care of the paralyzed old man. Xue Guize gave a ''hmm''. "The second floor has been turned around, there''s no one other than that paralyzed old man." "Our rooms are all on the opposite side of the old man''s room, sharing a corridor." Ning Qiushui asked: "Didn''t find anything unusual?" Xue Guize shook his head, hesitated for a moment, and returned: "In our room, there is a ...... very strange smell, I can''t tell what that smell is, it doesn''t smell good anyway." "All seven rooms have it?" "Well, all of them." At this time, the girl next to her, called Ya Mu, added softly: "There''s another thing that''s strange ......" "The rooms that that hostess prepared for us all have en-suite bathrooms." Kitajima snorted: "What''s so strange about that, people have money, they don''t want to run around using a bathroom ......" Ning Qiushui frowned. "No ...... it is indeed strange." "This villa, obviously only the mistress lives with her family, even if the male owner is at home, there are only four people, why do you have to prepare so many bedrooms and toilets?" "What''s so strange about this ......, maybe they are very hospitable?" "Often invite friends over for parties, don''t rich people like to have this?" Kitajima''s tone was slightly flustered. No one picked up on his words. The crowd fell into an eerie silence again. Until ...... A piercing scream from the second floor pierced the terrifying silence- "Ah!!!" no flavor. This sudden tragic scream broke the dead silence of the villa. The crowd immediately looked to the second floor. "What happened?" "No ...... don''t know!" "Go take a look!" The crowd quickly headed towards the second floor and arrived at the place where the sound source occurred. It was precisely the room where the paralyzed old man was. Wang Yu Ning, who was carrying the rice earlier, fell to the ground at this time, leaning against the corner, hugging her knees and shivering! The hot meal ...... spilled all over the place. "What happened?" Ning Qiushui asked. Wang Yu Ning slowly stretched out a finger in front of the crowd, pointing at the old man lying on the bed, and trembling: "She ...... she ...... just ...... spoke!" Following the direction of her finger, the crowd looked toward the old man lying motionless on the bed, looking out the window out of his mind. Liu Chengfeng snorted: "Still think something is wrong ...... Didn''t you hear the hostess say that? Her mother is just paralyzed." "Paralyzed and not a vegetable, why can''t she talk?" "Thought you were more bullish?" "A paralyzed old man in bed scares you like this?" Liu Chengfeng easily seized the opportunity, his mouth directly like a machine gun burst. But Wang Yu Ning in the corner seemed to be terrified, shivering and shaking, and froze without returning the favor. Ning Qiushui glanced at the old man on the bed, and signaled Liu Chengfeng to help collect the ground, while he himself pulled up Wang Yu Ning on the ground. "She spilled it herself, but she wants me to help collect it, what''s the matter ......" Liu Chengfeng''s mouth rambled, but he was surprisingly obedient, quickly going to the toilet to get a towel and start wiping the floor. This scene was somewhat anticlimactic. Liu Chengfeng, who looked like he was not to be messed with, was so obedient to Ning Qiushui. But the crowd didn''t inquire about it either. After tidying up the room, Ning Qiushui came to the old man''s bedside, took a serious look at the old man''s kind cheeks, and then helped her cover the quilt, turning around to leave the room with the crowd. Back on the first floor, it was already completely dark outside. Pale lights illuminated the hall. But for some reason, the crowd always felt that they were still in darkness. The silence was unsettling. "Alright, Wang Yu Ning, you can speak now....... What did the old man tell you up there just now?" Ning Qiushui sat on the sofa opposite Wang Yu Ning and poured himself a cup of hot tea. As soon as she mentioned what happened up there, Wang Yu Ning''s face, which had only looked better, turned deathly white again! Her fingertips tightly clutched the corner of her coat. "Just now ...... just now wasn''t I feeding her?" "She ate a mouthful of beef tenderloin and just, just spit it right out!" Liu Chengfeng glared: "Mard, she threw up?" "Laozi''s cooking is awful?" Ning Qiushui frowned. "Liu Chengfeng, listen to her first." Liu Chengfeng smashed his mouth, muttered a few words in a low voice, and didn''t bb anymore. Wang Yu Ning''s eyes revealed a look of fear, her expression resisted, and she seemed to be very reluctant to recall what had just happened: "...... I thought it was too hot, so I tasted it myself, however, the rice wasn''t hot, so I fed her a second mouthful, but she still spat it out ......" "And this time, after she vomited, she actually, actually turned her head and stared at me and said ...... said ......" She couldn''t spit out a complete sentence for a long time, Xue Gouze''s eyebrows wrinkled to the point where he could pinch a mosquito, and he urgently said: "What did she say, why don''t you say it!" Under Xue Guize''s urging, Wang Yu Ning finally braced herself and gritted her teeth: "Her voice is very small, I didn t hear it too clearly, it seems to say that ...... meat has no ...... meat no flavor!" "Right ...... she should be saying that the meat has no flavor!" As soon as these words came out, a terrifying lightning bolt actually crossed the window, followed by deafening thunder! The crowd was startled by the thunder! "Holy crap, this thunder hit ......" Ning Qiushui looked at the dark sky outside and suddenly came to the window and pulled it open. Cold wind accompanied by rain and mist came to his face. "It''s raining ...... torrential rain, gusty wind ......" He closed the window again, and his face became much more grave. "All this has begun to be fulfilled ......" "Is that letter ...... really not a prank?" Unlike the others, Ning Qiushui had once received a ...... mysterious letter before entering the bus. Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit. It was a matter that he had never told the others. Just as the crowd was whispering and discussing the matter of the meat having no flavor, Ning Qiushui suddenly closed the window. It was closed tightly, not letting a single bit of wind blow in. "Alright, if she doesn''t eat it, forget it, it''s getting late, let''s just rest early ......" "Get up early tomorrow morning and go cook some more meat porridge for the old man." "Have you guys chosen a room yet?" The crowd that was discussing suddenly fell silent for a while. "Are we ...... really going to sleep in one room each?" At this time, Ya Mu, who rarely spoke, opened her mouth, her expression abashed, seemingly stunned by what had just happened. Xue Guize said: "We briefly looked at the room before, it''s big, double bed, the room is very clean, two people sleeping in one room is just right." Yan Youping''s eyes are still a little swollen, and when he heard that he wanted two people in a room, he anxiously said: "But ...... but we have three girls ah!" Xue Guize sighed: "That room isn''t small, you girls are all relatively petite in size, you can sleep if you squeeze." The three girls looked at each other, none of them said anything. No one liked sleeping in a bed with a stranger. But they actually already know that this villa ...... is not safe. The crowd always felt that there seemed to be something in the gloom that was gazing at them ...... After turning off the lights, they came to the second floor together. After a brief discussion among the crowd, Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng took the lead and entered the same room. The three girls were in the innermost part of the right corridor on the second floor, farthest away from the old man they had to take care of. The remaining two boys, on the other hand, chose to be next to Ning Qiushui''s room. For some reason, Ning Qiushui''s body seemed to have a kind of magical power, after being near him, the crowd would feel safer. The last girl to head to the room was Wang Yu Ning. While she was still out of her mind because of what happened during the day, the crowd had already walked into the room. For a while, she was the only one left in the corridor. The light switch in the corridor was at the place where they went up the stairs, and it was a single switch, but the room they chose was at the innermost part of the room, with at least twenty meters in between. If she were to turn off the lights, it would mean that she would have to walk those twenty meters in the dark. Her eyes fell on the open blinds at the end of the corridor. The trees outside grew like devils, twisted and hideous, accompanied by a cold wind, as if they were about to enter at any moment and eat Wang Yu Ning up! She couldn''t help but shiver, and not daring to turn off the lights, she quickly stepped into the innermost room and then locked the door with force. Bang! ... Inside the room, Ning Qiushui took off her top, revealing a body of angular muscles with a sense of explosive power. Liu Chengfeng, who was brushing his teeth, glanced in surprise. When Ning Qiushui put on his clothes, he couldn''t be seen as such a fierce and fierce man! "Ning little brother ...... didn''t expect ah, you''re hiding quite deep!" "Just this mermaid line, this small abs, that if you go to a nightclub ...... shall not be scrambled for by rich women?" Liu Chengfeng heatedly laughed and scowled at Ning Qiushui. Ning Qiushui rolled her eyes: "So why do you keep following me?" Liu Chengfeng spat out the toothpaste foam in his mouth at the sound of his voice, collected the small expression on his face, and said in a serious manner: "...... Little brother you are meticulous, but I can''t say it now, I will tell you after we leave alive from the Blood Sect this time ......" Hearing this answer from Liu Chengfeng, Ning Qiushui was first stunned, then laughed: "Quite mysterious." Liu Chengfeng shook his head and moved the topic away: "Right, little brother, do you think ...... that old man has a problem?" Ning Qiushui was silent for a moment. "It''s not just that old man, this family, even the villa complex has problems!" Liu Chengfeng was stunned: "What''s wrong with the villa complex?" Ning Qiushui said: "The mistress of the villa said that this area is only inhabited by their family, but in fact, many of the villas that I passed by, there are traces of people living in them, and it''s just left behind in the last month or two, and that''s true of all the 8 houses that I saw alone, not to mention the many that I didn''t see ...... " "This proves that ...... this area was inhabited not long ago." Listening to Ning Qiushui''s words, Liu Chengfeng''s back gradually oozed cold sweat. If Ning Qiushui''s observation was correct, then ...... where did these people go? Ning Qiushui paced in front of the window, his expression grave, his hands in his pockets as he continued: "Moreover, if a person lives alone, they usually don''t buy such a large garden villa, so the people who live in it basically have family or friends, and even if they go out to work, there won''t be a single person at home ......" "But in reality, this villa area seems to have only ...... us left." He reached out and pointed. Following the direction he pointed, Liu Chengfeng suddenly saw that the dozen or so houses ...... in front of their window were all dark! There was actually ...... not a single light! "This ......" "How can this be?!" His face became extremely ugly. Ning Qiushui slowly said: "Here, something must have happened." "Something ...... very terrible." He carefully inspected the windows, confirming that they were locked to death and that not a single breeze could penetrate, before he pulled the curtains closed and returned to the bed. Without the wind, the two of them lying on the bed, both smelled a ...... strange odor. "What flavor?" Liu Chengfeng asked. That smell is not strong, but it has been lingering, long lasting, like ...... something rotting and moldy. The duo remembered what Xue Guize had said earlier, and searched for a while before finally pinpointing the source of the odor. --The top of their heads. The wooden ceiling there was a sticky mess, and it seemed like some kind of liquid was seeping through. These liquids were yellowish-brown in color, and the smell was unpleasant. "Holy crap ......" Liu Chengfeng felt a wave of nausea and hurriedly dragged the bed away a bit. "What is that thing?" Ning Qiushui stood below, squinting and staring at the wet mass on the ceiling for a long time before saying: "Beard, do you believe me?" Liu Chengfeng didn''t understand what Ning Qiushui meant by this, but still nodded. "Believe." Ning Qiushui slowly said: "Tonight, don''t fall asleep, don''t turn on the lights, and whatever you hear ...... don''t pay attention to it." Liu Chengfeng''s body stiffened. "Little brother, you mean ...... something is going to happen tonight?" Ning Qiushui was silent for a long time before he finally nodded his head in a faintly unsearchable manner. He turned off the lights, and the room was immediately plunged into a silent and horrible darkness ...... Liu Chengfeng lay on the bed, his heart in turmoil. Although he tried as much as possible to keep himself from falling asleep, as time passed, sleepiness finally spread all over his body irresistibly ...... After an unknown amount of time, he was woken up by a strange sound. The source of the sound was outside the door. It was a ...... sound similar to two metal sharp objects rubbing against each other. Jabla-- Prick-la-- Listening to this sweat inducing sound, the first thing ...... that came to Liu Chengfeng''s mind was a knife and fork! He often cooks and is more than familiar with the sound of kitchenware and cutlery! Liu Chengfeng sat up violently, wanting to turn on the light, but his ears suddenly echoed with Ning Qiu Shui''s admonition, and his raised hand was lowered again. "Little Brother Ning, are you there?" Liu Chengfeng lowered his voice to inquire, and a ''shhh'' sound immediately came from beside him. "Don''t make a sound." Ning Qiushui''s voice was similarly low, and carried a trace of a faintly unsearchable tremor. Clearly, he was also nervous. The door to their room wasn''t completely closed, leaving a gap, and the light from the corridor outside penetrated through the gap under the door. As the terrifying sound cut across their door, a bizarre black shadow followed in a flash ...... The terrible friction sound almost made Liu Chengfeng s heart jump out of his throat! That thing outside the door ...... actually stopped at their door! Liu Chengfeng clenched his own fists, his breathing stopped! The thing outside the door, what exactly is it? What would happen if it came ...... in? In that instant, his mind went blank, as if he had lost the ability to think. As if it was a few minutes, and as if it was just an instant later, the terrifying black shadow outside the door finally moved again, heading deeper into the corridor ...... The ear-piercing scuffling sound rang out once again - Prickly... Prickly... That kind of feeling, as if it was an executioner, is looking for a prisoner by their own lynching ...... It went all the way deeper, pausing for a moment at the second door, and then went to the innermost door of the corridor, again stopping for a moment outside the door before completely losing its movement... Ning Qiushui suddenly sat up from his bed at this time, tiptoed over to the door, and pressed his ear against the crack in the door. He listened for a long time. There was no sound coming from outside the door. It was as if the dark shadow had just disappeared abruptly. After listening quietly for ten minutes or so, he confirmed that there was no sound outside at all, and only then did he return to the bed. "Little brother, what was that thing outside?" Liu Chengfeng asked in a low voice. Ning Qiushui shook his head: "I don''t know, but it''s definitely not a human." "It walks without a sound at all." Upon hearing this, cold sweat immediately seeped out from Liu Chengfeng''s forehead. It can''t be ...... In this villa ...... Could there really be something unclean?